Reading Time: 2 minutes Mass deaths of bee colonies in many parts of the world may be part of a wider, hidden threat to wild insect pollinators vital to human food supplies, a UN study indicated March 10. Declines in flowering plants, a spread of parasites, use of pesticides or air pollution were among more than a dozen factors […] Read more
Mass Bee Deaths May Signal A Wider Pollination Threat
New Plan To Help Kenyan Pastoralists
Reading Time: 2 minutes Herders of cows or camels in arid northern Kenya can obtain a new type of insurance against drought – the first of its kind in Africa using satellites to gauge rainfall. Project organizers hope to get about 1,000 households in the Marsabit district to sign up for insurance in coming weeks after a formal launch […] Read more
Widen Global Warming Fight Beyond CO2, UN Says
Reading Time: 2 minutes The world should widen a fight against global warming by curbing a string of pollutants other than carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) said Sept. 4. Heat-trapping methane, nitrogen compounds, low-level ozone and soot are responsible for almost half of the man-made emissions stoking climate change in the 21st century, […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
